A small city at one edge of the Triad has a new golf professional at one club and one on the way at another. Veteran Triad golf professional Andy Cardwell is the new pro at Mt. Airy County Club. Cardwell told Triad Golf Magazine that he would take over his new duties on March 24.…
Triad golfers Morgan Ketchum and Emily Mathews made strong showings with the Virginia Tech women’s team on Monday at the Yale Invitational West at PGA West at LaQuinta, California. Ketchum shot 2-under-par 70 and Mathews posted 71 for the Hokies, who are in seventh place. North Carolina is running away from the field with a…
There are about 100 golf courses on Grand Strand. It all depends on how far up and down the coast and into Brunswick County you keeping counting. When I lived there for most of the 1990s, the number increased every year, rising well above the century level. Yes, I had played them all, including private…
The owner of three prestigious Triad golf clubs has added a South Carolina course to its holdings. McConnell Golf, owner of Sedgefield Country Club, The Cardinal by Pete Dye and Old North State Club in the Triad, has purchased the 27-hole Cobblestone Park Golf Club near Columbia, sources with McConnell confirmed Friday to Triad Golf…
Kelvin Hernandez, playing in his second consecutive Puerto Rico Open on the PGA Tour, shot another 72 Friday to finish at even-par 144 after the first two rounds, missing the cut. The UNC Greensboro sophomore, who last year become the first Spartan player to play in the NCAA Championship, had earned a spot in the…
The UNC Greensboro women won the 13-team Puerto Rico Shootout by five strokes over James Madison at Palmas Del Mar Country Club in Humacao when Thursday’s final round was canceled by poor weather. The Spartans shot 2-over 574 for 36 holes. Lulu Leetham led UNCG with a 4-under-par 140 total, good for a second-place tie…
Macy Pate shot 72 Wednesday to finish in a tie for eighth as the Wake Forest women’s golf team climbed into fourth against a stellar field at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate. Macy, a sophomore from Winston-Salem, finished at 3-over 216 in the 54-hole event at Long Cove Club on Hilton Head Island. The tournament is…
Macy Pate of Winston-Salem shot 2-over-par 73 Tuesday to lead Wake Forest players through 36 holes of the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate at Long Cove Club on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Pate, who shot 71 on Monday, is tied for 14th in the individual standings of the 17-team tournament including several of the nation’s top-ranked…
As the CEO of tournament title sponsor OneFlight International, Ferren Rajput has made contacts with several major celebrities, who he now wants to bring to Myrtle Beach’s second-year PGA Tour event. On Monday morning, Rajput announced that he’s assembled a cast of stars including Kevin Costner and Kurt Russell and is in discussions with Bill…
As I drove past the Triad’s new Topgolf this weekend, I wondered for about the millionth time why Topgolf has sprung up across the nation’s largest markets, eventually opening up in Greensboro. I get the Topgolf premise. Hit golf balls in a social setting with friends, including non-golfers, with food and alcohol drinks. It’s a…